Glucose status/instructions request, (and notes on stale branches)

[Alan Hourihane]

On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 11:07 -0700, Carl Worth wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:54:54 -0700, Carl Worth wrote:
> > Meanwhile, in driver/xf86-video-intel I see both a 'glucose' and
> > 'glucose-xf86-video-intel-2.1-branch' branches. Again, which do I
> > want?
> 
> I guessed glucose-xf86-video-intel-2.1-branch but I haven't quite
> gotten it working yet. I'm getting:
> 
> 	i830_memory.c: In function 'i830_free_memory':
> 	i830_memory.c:235: warning: implicit declaration of function 'drmBOUnReference'
> 	i830_memory.c:235: warning: nested extern declaration of 'drmBOUnReference'
> 	i830_memory.c: In function 'i830_allocate_memory_bo':
> 	i830_memory.c:702: error: 'drm_bo_type_dc' undeclared (first use in this function)
> 
> Did I miss some glucose-specific drm branch? Or am I not pointing to
> the most recent drm, (I did just recompile it, so I'm trying to point
> to the most recent thing). Oh, or is my drm too new now?
> 
> It sure would help a lot if the version requirements were correctly
> encoded in configure.in files and nice complaints were made at
> configure time rather than obscure failures at compile time...

Given this is all pretty much work-in-progress, there's a few issues to
be worked out.

My last email suggests the correct path. Anything else just won't work.

I'm hoping to merge this to trunk pretty soon for both xserver and intel
code once the final couple of niggles are sorted out.

Alan.